Beneath This Gruff Exterior

Beneath This Gruff Exterior is singer-songwriter John Hiatt's seventeenth album, released on May 6, 2003. It was his first album with New West Records, and it was also the only album on which backing band The Goners received front cover credit along with Hiatt (although The Goners had previously backed Hiatt on 1988's Slow Turning and 2001's The Tiki Bar Is Open).

Track listing
All tracks written by John Hiatt


 * 1) "Uncommon Connection" – 4:11
 * 2) "How Bad's The Coffee" – 3:56
 * 3) "The Nagging Dark" – 3:15
 * 4) "My Baby Blue" – 4:35
 * 5) "My Dog And Me" – 3:15
 * 6) "Almost Fed Up With The Blues" – 4:36
 * 7) "Circle Back" – 4:30
 * 8) "Window On The World" – 3:36
 * 9) "Missing Pieces" – 4:06
 * 10) "Fly Back Home" – 4:44
 * 11) "The Last Time" – 4:53
 * 12) "The Most Unoriginal Sin" – 4:15

Personnel
and The Goners: with:
 * John Hiatt – guitar, vocals
 * Sonny Landreth – electric guitar, slide guitar, Dobro, backing vocals
 * David Ranson – bass guitar
 * Kenneth Blevins – drums, backing vocals
 * Bobby Keys – saxophone
 * Technical
 * Don Smith – production, nixing, engineering
 * Doug Sax – mastering
 * Kimberly Levitan – art direction, design
 * Michael "Mick" Wilson – photography